National or local infodemic? The demand for news in Italy during COVID-19.

Autor: Castriota S; Department of Political Sciences, University of Pisa, Via Serafini 3, 56126, Pisa, Italy., Delmastro M; Autorità Per Le Garanzie Nelle Comunicazioni, Via Isonzo 21/B, 00198, Rome, Italy., Tonin M; Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Università, 1, 39100, Bolzano, Italy. mirco.tonin@unibz.it.; FBK-IRVAPP, Trento, Italy. mirco.tonin@unibz.it.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of health economics and management [Int J Health Econ Manag] 2023 Dec; Vol. 23 (4), pp. 507-536. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 17.
DOI: 10.1007/s10754-023-09350-3
Abstrakt: Information can have an important impact on health behavior and, according to the World Health Organization, an 'infodemic' has accompanied the current pandemic. Observing TV news viewership in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic using actual consumption data, we investigate whether demand for national and local news depends on national or local epidemiological developments, as measured by the number of new positives or the number of current positives on any given day. Exploiting the fact that the impact of the pandemic displays a great deal of variation among the different regions, we find that at the regional level, demand for both national and local news responds to national epidemiological developments rather than to local ones. This has implications regarding the incentives for local politicians to take preventive action.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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